Mining: Reducing tedium and strain

[DragonRider]

I do agree that mining can easily get tedious. But I'm sorry, making it AFK or even semi-AFK isn't a solution.

By it's nature Freelancer is an interaction heavy game. In a RTS or Eve Online you can give your guy a command and alt-tab into YouTube for a few minutes, knowing full well your lil guy will do the work. In Freelancer, you're doing all the actions and work. You can't AFK trade or fight, so it doesn't make sense for you to AFK mine as well.

Even if I put aside my "heavy intractable game" view, AFK mining is still boring. I sentence you to to 1 hour of mining in Eve Online for you to realize that (click rock, click mine. AFK 10 minutes, rock gets mined out, repeat).

If you'd ask me to suggest a solution myself, I have two possible:
- reduce the amount of time you're required to mine. Simple one. If now you need, say, 5 minutes to fill a 5k-er, drop that time to 2-3 minutes. Less time doing mining, the slower it becomes annoying.
- make mining way more intractable. There was a clip that Jammi posted on the Discord, showing a CSV orbiting a rock, shooting at it's weakspots. Upon doing so, ore chunks would fly out and wait to be collected. Now that's cool. As I understand that requires some new FLHook version or something, which might not be doable. But hey, worth a suggestion.